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Installing the VSCode extension pack for Java runs a headless version of Eclipse JDT under the hood, which isn’t quite what I think of as lightweight.

>>andyly+(OP)
What's wrong with that? If they re-implement the whole thing it would amount to the same code size. It's the JDT language SERVER not some sort of "headless" software with UI needlessly bundled.

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=redhat.j...

>>andyly+(OP)
You can set the launchMode to LightWeight which spins up a syntax-only language server.

>>andyly+(OP)
Java isn't quite what I think of as lightweight. I mean it probably can be, but most Java engineering I know of is all about adding more and more libraries, frameworks, checks, tests, etc.